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Wanted was stupid

Postby cyphon » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:17 pm

Read the book on my holidays. Interesting idea, but really poorly done, and the ending is ridiculously juvenile.

Mark Millar is like a 12 year old in the body of a 45 year old. And that's both a compliment and an insult.
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Postby Dragavon » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:25 pm

I liked Wanted. It was fun except for the atrocious ending. But then Millar can never end anything well, for example Civil War.
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Postby TROY » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:27 pm

Didn't care for the book or the movie, thought they both sucked.
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Postby Regulator » Sat Aug 21, 2010 9:39 pm

Why is the ending juvenile? I'm not saying it's genius but it's at least believably in-character, whether you'd like to think Millar is saying it himself or not.

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Postby Cat-Scratch » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:28 pm

Dragavon wrote:I liked Wanted. It was fun except for the atrocious ending. But then Millar can never end anything well, for example Civil War.


Civil War was crap from start to finish.
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Postby Strict31 » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:40 pm

Cat-Scratch wrote:Civil War was crap from start to finish.


I liked the art...

Yeah, I got nothin' else.
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Postby McKegan » Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:47 pm

I love Wanted, and the ending is genius. Genius, I fuckin' tell ya.

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Postby Doc Jon » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:28 pm

I liked it...
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Postby Chris » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:29 pm

It was good.
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Postby Miracloman » Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:00 am

Cat-Scratch wrote:Civil War was crap from start to finish.



Civil War was great...if you define below amateur level fan fiction as "great".
And as for Wanted...read up to the third or fourth issue, after which I feed the whole thing to the paper shredder.
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Postby Dragavon » Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:06 am

Cat-Scratch wrote:Civil War was crap from start to finish.

Great concept. Great art. It would have been the perfect miniseries if perhaps Brubaker and Bendis had co-written it.
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Postby mrorangesoda » Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:47 am

I agree.

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Postby oogy » Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:55 am

I've only seen the movie, which I didn't care for, and decided I didn't need to waste my time or money on the book.

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Postby Allen » Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:58 am

It's Millar. The man hasn't really written anything good for a long time.

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Postby mrorangesoda » Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:00 am

oogyboy wrote:I've only seen the movie, which I didn't care for, and decided I didn't need to waste my time or money on the book.


To the book's credit, there's no loom. I endorse your decision though.

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